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Snap Stats: Seeing What’s Up With Snap.com
Via John Battelle, news of a nice nice write-up from SiliconBeat looking at the data Snap is freely providing about its operations,…
Snap.Com Profiled
The Pasadena Star-News offers has published a profile of Idealab’s Snap.com. [Snap.com] replaces the traditional “pay-per- click’ search model, in which an…
PremierGuide Profile
The Silicon Valley Business Journal offers a profile of local search player PremierGuide in the article: Alchemy: Local ads good as gold.…
Local Search and Pay-Per-Call Technology
The Forbes article: Search Engines Go Local, offers an overview of the local search scene, and focuses on Ingenio, the company providing…
UpSNAP and Looksmart Announce Partnership
UpSNAP, the SMS-based search tool Chris wrote about last month has announced a partnership with Looksmart. The company [UpSNAP] will offer its…
Topix.net and Citysearch Announce Partnership
Topix.net (a news resource I utilize several times each day) and Citysearch are announcing a deal today that will bring news headlines…
Google-BellSouth Partnership — Not Quite Revolutionary
AdAge examines the new Google-BellSouth deal to explain why the two partnered: Why the Google-BellSouth Yellow Pages Deal Happened. Frankly, there’s nothing…
Local Search will Fuel Paid Search Market
An interesting paradox: Despite the fact that many early paid search advertisers were small businesses, there hasn’t been a big shift in…
Google Advertising Forecasts Obtained by the SF Chronicle
Verne Kopytoff at the San Francisco Chronicle has once again gotten access to some internal Google documents. These dccs show that the…
Clickfraud: Whose Problem, FTC, Search Engines Or Advertisers?
Adam Penenberg takes the US Federal Trade Commission to task for not doing more to prevent clickfraud in his Wired commentary, Click…